AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY.
What is a "Sphere of Influence"?
Say, warlike Wissmann; tell, pugnacious Pinto
(Whom England had to give so sharp a hint to).
The talk about the thing is now immense.
John Bull, the German, and the Portuguee,
Claim each a "sphere," and that alone makes three;
But what and where are they upon the map?
And do they intersect or overlap?